From the Armed Citizens’ Legal Defense Network.

eJournal: Thank you for stopping by, Alex and Mike. Today, I’d like to learn about the law’s view of defending domestic animals and on the other side of the coin, defending against animals. As I was writing out my questions, I laughed when I realized that we could have the world’s shortest interview if I asked, “Is it okay to use deadly force to defend your domestic pets?” and you would say…

Alex Ooley: “No.”

Defending Pets (armedcitizensnetwork.org)

Click on the link and read the whole thing, please.

As we read with the Donofrio case, the young man busted the glass on the door and reached inside grabbing the handle. I am not going to make the case that if the owner had a full door, this would may not have happened, but I will point out that most front doors with this kind of glass treatments are either weak or present a temptation to true criminals to break in. The other disadvantage I see is that depending on the glass it provides a peek to the inside of your home or at least allows somebody that may not have the best of intentions, to see you or any members of your family approaching the door.

I will always favor a full steel door, properly installed and overly anchored. And yes, out swinging.

It is not a guarantee that they can’t breach it, but I have seen first-hand how long it takes to do so and it may give you plenty of time to repeal boarders with the proper amount of ballistic dissuasion.

I posted about this case and how it was trying to be played on the media: The Disinformation Never Stops. – Gun Free Zone.

And now we have the official report:

After consulting with the Fifth Circuit Solicitor’s Office regarding the circumstances of the South Holly Street fatal shooting last weekend, charges will not be filed against the homeowner. As a result, the homeowner’s name will not be publicly released.

The Columbia Police Department (CPD) and Solicitor’s Office have deemed the incident as a justifiable homicide under the Protection of Persons and Property Act. (SC Code of Law 16-11-410 & 420).

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CPD investigators have determined that Donofrio who resided on South Holly Street, mistakenly went to the wrong home and attempted to enter by repeatedly knocking, banging, and kicking at the front door while manipulating the door handle.

As Donofrio kicked the door, the female resident called 9-1-1 for police assistance.

At the same time, the male resident went to another area of the home to retrieve a firearm. While the female was still on the phone with emergency dispatchers, Donofrio broke the front door glass window and reached inside to manipulate the doorknob.

At that time, the male resident fired a single shot through the broken door window striking Donofrio in the upper body.

Update: South Holly Street Fatal Shooting Deemed Justifiable – City of Columbia Police Department (columbiapd.net)

Again, this is not a case where anybody truly “won:” A young man lost his life because an absurd mistake and a homeowner went through the panic of what must have felt like a home invasion and then having to kill somebody who was not a criminal. This just so very sad for all involved and their families.

Hat tip to Clayton Cramer. 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – A man was arrested after police said he robbed a woman at knifepoint and then locked her in a closet as she showed up to work at a Nashville school on Tuesday morning.

According to an arrest report from the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD), the call came in for an aggravated robbery just after 7 a.m. on Tuesday, and officers were dispatched to Cameron College Prep on First Avenue South.

The woman told officers that she was approached by 65-year-old William Joe Buford, who was armed with a large butcher knife, as she arrived at work and was forced inside the school gymnasium, the report states. Buford then demanded she give him money, but when she told him she did not have any, he took her car keys, cell phone, earbuds, and watch.

The woman said that Buford told her, “I’m not going to hurt you, but if you were a white (expletive), I’d kill you.” He locked her inside a closet inside the gymnasium before leaving, according to the report. She banged on the closet door until students heard her calls for help and let her out.

Nashville teacher robbed, locked in closet, police say (wsmv.com)

He is just “oppressed.”

If the Liberals keep feeding the coals of racism, they are going to find themselves having to deal with a bloodbath of their making. The worse part is that in places like Nashville, the victims will probably be inside their voting block.

I love this so much.

And they are right. Back in the early 90s, the most popular rifle in the US was the venerable lever action in 30-30. But America has one inherent “problem” in our cultural DNA and that is The Forbidden Fruit Effect:

The forbidden fruit effect describes just this – that items become more attractive simply because they have been forbidden. People are known to be curious about unpleasant or risky stimuli (Hsee & Ruan, 2016; Oosterwijk, 2017).

It was the Clinton’s Administration and Democrat congress who forced upon the country the so-called (and badly designed) Assault Weapons Ban which made gun owners everywhere go”Hey, if DC hates them that much, there has to be something about them I may like about them.”

And thus, suddenly millions of Americans became enamored of the AR platform. It now stands as the most popular rifle in the country and probably with more units floating around than over a century worth of production of lever action rifles.

Every time the Gun Control Clique in Government comes with announcements about how this time, they will pass the final legislation to ban AR 15 and other rifles, more ARs and components suddenly invade the shipping system on their way to private hands, to Citizens’ hands.

I really don’t see an issues with that.

Imagine you are hired to do a job and not only you fail, but you do so in a spectacular and embarrassing fashion. You would expect to be fired, right?

That does not happen if you are in the Gun Control Business:

They begged and got almost a third of a million dollars even after they knew they were dead in the water.

One is born every minute, and they vote and fund for the assholes above.

The alarm went off, I opened my blurry eyes and reached for my phone. Click… click… 03?!?!!?

I started looking. I log into my server from my phone, clicking away to get a status. The database engine is in a crashbackoff loop.

About that time, I noticed that Miguel had contacted me with a very polite 503? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

As I have talked about, I’m upgrading the infrastructure that GFZ uses. The previous round of downtime resulted in me opening tickets with Linode and escalating to the point where less than a week ago I got an update, “We resolved the issue you reported”. They had known about the issue for over a year. It just wasn’t important enough to fix until their client, me, raised a fuss.

One of the side effects of this upgrade process is that I’ve had to increase the number of nodes and the size of nodes. All of that is going well.

It is unclear to me why the database engine crashed, only that it did.

To that end, I have removed that database engine from production. Moved all the data to the larger, more stable, database engine. This database engine is using the new persistent (CEPH) storage engine. While it is not “crash proof” it is less prone to failures because of the way the data is now stored.

In addition, it is much easier to get backups of the data.

I’m going to take the plunge later today and move the assets from the storage it is currently using to the new storage system. This offers numerous benefits, not the least of which is that I can do rolling upgrades of the software.

Yesterday I upgraded ‘WordPress’ on multiple sites. With the new infrastructure being used by some of those sites, there was zero downtime. K8S started a new pod with the new software. When it was stable, it terminated one of the old pods. It then started a second pod with the new software. When it was stable, it terminated the last old pod. Zero downtime.

For GFZ, using the older infrastructure, the old pod was terminated, the new pod was started, once it was stable, service resumed.

Regardless, I’m hopping for a quiet day.